Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara, Kempston
Later on Sunday, I visited the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara in Bedford Road, Kempston. Accompanied by my wife, Christine McHugh and Councillor Mark Fitzpatrick we were made most welcome. If elected as Mayor I will keep in close contact with members of the Sikh community as well as other faith groups.
4 Oct 2009
New bypass cycle ride, Great Denham
Sunday morning saw me out bright and early for a cycle ride on the new western bypass. The road is not yet open, but will lead from the A421 at Kempston to the A428 near Biddenham. The Bedford De Parys Rotary Club organised a charity cycle ride to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society and RYA Sailability. The weather was kind and there was a good turn out.
4 Oct 2009
Tesco Plans Submitted
Tesco have submitted a formal planning application for the Upper High Street development site. This follows an exhibition of their proposals during the summer months.
4 Oct 2009
Home Office must stop fiddling figures to justify holding innocents' DNA - Huhne
Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne has written to the Home Secretary to raise concerns over the misleading use of statistics to justify holding the DNA of innocent people on the Government's database.
4 Oct 2009
Yes to Europe
The 67% Irish vote in favour of the Lisbon Treaty is a vote against the Conservative and UKIP politicians who tried to urge a no vote and who would like to see us withdraw from Europe at the cost of local jobs. The Conservatives are tied to their Eurosceptic wing who forced David Cameron to withdraw his MEP's from a mainstream caucus in the European Parliament, and instead to align themselves with a handful of east European extreme right wingers. It is no coincidence that the Conservative who described the NHS as "a sixty year mistake" is an MEP representing the same strand of rightwing Eurosceptics that seem to want to see us out of Europe whatever the cost to our economy.
4 Oct 2009
Conservative Council plans to dump new housing on Burgess Hill
Mid Sussex District Council seems intent on imposing the bulk of the housing required under the government's housing targets onto Burgess Hill, having issued a press release outlining its favoured sites without consultation or discussion with any of the district's three town councils. It proposes 3,800 or 82% of the identified houses to be built to the north and north west of Burgess Hill (the 'Northern Arc'), as well as 570 houses on land to the west of East Grinstead (Imberhorne Farm) and 275 houses at Hurst Farm, Haywards Heath.
3 Oct 2009